[Vision2020] No Candidates Have Been 'eviscerated'

[keely emerinemix]

Great letter.  And it seems to me that for a candidate to be "eviscerated," he would have to have some guts in the first place . . . 

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 06:00:15 -0700
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] No Candidates Have Been 'eviscerated'
> 
> Courtesy of today's (November 2, 2010) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with a
> special thanks to Leigh Robartes of KRFP, Radio Free Moscow.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 
> No candidates have been 'eviscerated'
> 
> Your weekend editorial (Daily News, Oct 30 & 31) reads as if only the
> "left of center chattering classes" are able to tune their radios to 92.5,
> let alone call in during our candidate forums.
> 
> We publicize our forums to attract a cross-section of the electorate. We
> take calls from listeners in the sequence they come in.
> 
> Our forums are unique in that voters can publicly and directly ask as many
> as 25 questions in an hour.
> 
> I have hosted candidate forums every year since 2005 on KRFP, and numerous
> years prior on KUOI, and there have been no candidates "being lectured,"
> and I don't remember any candidates "being eviscerated," even in the
> figurative sense of the word.
> 
> Mostly we've had questions about public policy and positions on issues.
> The format certainly allows for all sorts of questions from callers, but
> given past experience it's purely speculation on your part that there
> would be a lack of civility. Over the years, most candidates have gladly
> participated, although occasionally some have declined, including at least
> two Democrats.
> 
> Seeing no story from your news reporter, Christina Lords, only the weekend
> editorial, I'll include some of what she called to find out Friday.
> Gresham Bouma told me he couldn't take the risk that he would say
> something during that night's radio forum that would be jumped on by those
> opposed to him so soon before the election, when there would be little
> time to respond. He also didn't want a one-hour forum on his pastor. I
> told Gresham that was unlikely, but I was unable to persuade him to
> participate.
> 
> Due to the 300-word limit to reply to your 400 word editorial, I'll leave
> it to you to run a correction on the circumstances of Bill Goesling not
> participating.
> 
> Leigh Robartes, station manager, KRFP/Radio Free Moscow
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Seeya at the polls, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
> - Unknown
> 
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